Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:43 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2000, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:43 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mc Entire Ang, SC | Official obs reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Columbia, SC | Sheriff reported trees down along I26 and St. Andrews road. |
| Jun 22, 4:27 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Ballentine, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. One man was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
896 WUUS52 KCAE 221943 SVRCAE SCC079-222030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 343 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF EASTOVER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EASTOVER AT 400 PM EDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Newberry | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 49 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.